Ksenia Shagal
@ksushagal.bsky.social
Professor, Uralic Studies & Linguistic Typology, LMU Munich
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The 2026 Winter School of Finno-Ugric Studies will be held at LMU Munich between 23 and 28 February 2026 (Monday through Saturday). The registration form for in-person and online participants can be found here: www.finnougristik.uni-muenchen.de/infuse/ankue...
14th Winter School of Finno-Ugric Studies (Munich) - Lehrstuhl für Finnougristik - LMU München
www.finnougristik.uni-muenchen.de
November 25, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The 2026 Winter School of Finno-Ugric Studies will be held at LMU Munich between 23 and 28 February 2026 (Monday through Saturday). The registration form for in-person and online participants can be found here: www.finnougristik.uni-muenchen.de/infuse/ankue...
A really interesting online talk in our research colloquium on eye-tracking experiments with Northern Khanty speakers!
On Monday, 17 November, at 14:15–15:45 CET, Sofya Ganieva (University of Zurich) will give a talk on Planning passive sentences in a passivizing language based on her eye-tracking experiments with Northern Khanty speakers. The Zoom link is here: www.finnougristik.uni-muenchen.de/forschungssc...
November 15, 2025 at 10:16 AM
A really interesting online talk in our research colloquium on eye-tracking experiments with Northern Khanty speakers!
LMU Munich offers a funded PhD position for three years at the Graduate School of Language & Literature. The deadline for applications is 7 December 2025:
www.en.lipp.uni-muenchen.de/application/...
www.en.lipp.uni-muenchen.de/application/...
Application - Class of Language - LMU Munich
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November 4, 2025 at 10:22 PM
LMU Munich offers a funded PhD position for three years at the Graduate School of Language & Literature. The deadline for applications is 7 December 2025:
www.en.lipp.uni-muenchen.de/application/...
www.en.lipp.uni-muenchen.de/application/...
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On Monday, 3 November, Daria Zhornik (LMU) will give a talk summarizing the results of her doctoral dissertation. The title of the talk is "Discourse organisation in Northern Mansi: new findings". 14:15–15:45 CET, A 016 in the main building:
www.finnougristik.uni-muenchen.de/forschungssc...
www.finnougristik.uni-muenchen.de/forschungssc...
October 31, 2025 at 9:55 AM
On Monday, 3 November, Daria Zhornik (LMU) will give a talk summarizing the results of her doctoral dissertation. The title of the talk is "Discourse organisation in Northern Mansi: new findings". 14:15–15:45 CET, A 016 in the main building:
www.finnougristik.uni-muenchen.de/forschungssc...
www.finnougristik.uni-muenchen.de/forschungssc...
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The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2025 is awarded to the Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.” www.nobelprize.org/prizes/liter...
October 9, 2025 at 11:44 AM
The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2025 is awarded to the Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.” www.nobelprize.org/prizes/liter...
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The time before the beginning of the semester is perfect for all kinds of academic exchange, both for our students and for our teachers. Greetings from ELTE Budapest where Ksenia Shagal is giving several lectures on linguistic typology and Finnish pragmatics this week!
September 25, 2025 at 8:32 AM
The time before the beginning of the semester is perfect for all kinds of academic exchange, both for our students and for our teachers. Greetings from ELTE Budapest where Ksenia Shagal is giving several lectures on linguistic typology and Finnish pragmatics this week!
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Mʉβəɬi juːɣət sɐːjnə? Manər jiwət sājt? Mi van a fák mögött? Wenn Sie solche Fragen beschäftigen, Antworten erfahren Sie im kommenden Semester beim Kurs "3-in-1: Chantisch-Mansisch-Ungarisch kompakt!" von Zsófia Schön!
September 16, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Mʉβəɬi juːɣət sɐːjnə? Manər jiwət sājt? Mi van a fák mögött? Wenn Sie solche Fragen beschäftigen, Antworten erfahren Sie im kommenden Semester beim Kurs "3-in-1: Chantisch-Mansisch-Ungarisch kompakt!" von Zsófia Schön!
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(Wiesen)marisch an der LMU, direkt von den Leuten, die mit der Sprache arbeiten: im kommenden Semester bieten Jeremy Bradley & Johannes Hirvonen einen Sprach- und Strukturkurs zum Marischen an. Keine erforderlichen Vorkenntnisse!
September 11, 2025 at 11:44 AM
(Wiesen)marisch an der LMU, direkt von den Leuten, die mit der Sprache arbeiten: im kommenden Semester bieten Jeremy Bradley & Johannes Hirvonen einen Sprach- und Strukturkurs zum Marischen an. Keine erforderlichen Vorkenntnisse!
Every August on my vacation, I teach linguistics to school students in the best place on earth with the best people around me. Narva-Jõesuu 💙🧡💛
August 28, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Every August on my vacation, I teach linguistics to school students in the best place on earth with the best people around me. Narva-Jõesuu 💙🧡💛
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The LMU delegation at #cifu14 was so big that we did not fit into one picture, but here are at least some of us on various occasions. Many thanks to the organizers for this wonderful congress!
August 22, 2025 at 2:00 PM
The LMU delegation at #cifu14 was so big that we did not fit into one picture, but here are at least some of us on various occasions. Many thanks to the organizers for this wonderful congress!
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Opening the symposium on Building diachronic corpora for minority languages at Congressus XIV Internationalis Fenno-Ugristarum. The symposium is organized by Jeremy Bradley, Daria Zhornik, Ksenia Shagal (Munich), Timofey Arkhangelskiy, Alexandre Arkhipov (Hamburg), and Trond Trosterud (Tromsø).
August 21, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Opening the symposium on Building diachronic corpora for minority languages at Congressus XIV Internationalis Fenno-Ugristarum. The symposium is organized by Jeremy Bradley, Daria Zhornik, Ksenia Shagal (Munich), Timofey Arkhangelskiy, Alexandre Arkhipov (Hamburg), and Trond Trosterud (Tromsø).
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The Institute of Uralic Studies at LMU Munich is seeking applications for a position of a lecturer in Hungarian. It is a full-time permanent position with a starting date in February 2026. The deadline for applications is 20 September 2025. Please spread the word! job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/a...
Lecturer in Hungarian (m/f/x)
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August 4, 2025 at 8:26 AM
The Institute of Uralic Studies at LMU Munich is seeking applications for a position of a lecturer in Hungarian. It is a full-time permanent position with a starting date in February 2026. The deadline for applications is 20 September 2025. Please spread the word! job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/a...
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The third bilingual Hungarian–German volume of Dezső Kosztolányi's works translated by our students and our wonderful Hungarian lecturer Mária Kelemen together with a writer and translator Akos Doma was presented yesterday at the Consulate General of Hungary in Munich!
July 23, 2025 at 1:58 PM
The third bilingual Hungarian–German volume of Dezső Kosztolányi's works translated by our students and our wonderful Hungarian lecturer Mária Kelemen together with a writer and translator Akos Doma was presented yesterday at the Consulate General of Hungary in Munich!
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Greetings from Riga where we are presenting our research at the conference on Areal linguistics and language contact of Uralic languages. Our institute is represented by Margarita Wolf, Johannes Hirvonen, Ksenia Shagal @ksushagal.bsky.social, Jeremy Bradley @jeremue.bsky.social, and Gwen Eva Janda.
June 12, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Greetings from Riga where we are presenting our research at the conference on Areal linguistics and language contact of Uralic languages. Our institute is represented by Margarita Wolf, Johannes Hirvonen, Ksenia Shagal @ksushagal.bsky.social, Jeremy Bradley @jeremue.bsky.social, and Gwen Eva Janda.
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On Monday, 16 June, Irina Burukina (University of Florida) will give a talk on Inflected infinitives in Mari: Clitics, subject agreement, or a secret third thing. 14:15–15:45 CEST, A 014 in the main building – or using the Zoom link available here: www.finnougristik.uni-muenchen.de/forschungssc...
June 10, 2025 at 9:36 AM
On Monday, 16 June, Irina Burukina (University of Florida) will give a talk on Inflected infinitives in Mari: Clitics, subject agreement, or a secret third thing. 14:15–15:45 CEST, A 014 in the main building – or using the Zoom link available here: www.finnougristik.uni-muenchen.de/forschungssc...
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On Monday, 12 May, Aigul Zakirova (University of Potsdam) will give a talk on Necessity constructions in Hill Mari: a diachronic corpus perspective. 14:15–15:45 CEST, A 014 in the main building – or contact us for a Zoom link!
May 8, 2025 at 9:33 AM
On Monday, 12 May, Aigul Zakirova (University of Potsdam) will give a talk on Necessity constructions in Hill Mari: a diachronic corpus perspective. 14:15–15:45 CEST, A 014 in the main building – or contact us for a Zoom link!
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The Class of Language at the Graduate School of Language & Literature, LMU Munich is offering a PhD-scholarship for international applicants (DAAD), starting winter semester 2025/2026. The deadline for applications is 1 April 2025:
www.en.lipp.uni-muenchen.de/application/...
www.en.lipp.uni-muenchen.de/application/...
Application - Class of Language - LMU Munich
www.en.lipp.uni-muenchen.de
March 12, 2025 at 10:24 PM
The Class of Language at the Graduate School of Language & Literature, LMU Munich is offering a PhD-scholarship for international applicants (DAAD), starting winter semester 2025/2026. The deadline for applications is 1 April 2025:
www.en.lipp.uni-muenchen.de/application/...
www.en.lipp.uni-muenchen.de/application/...
My main personal achievement at the Finno-Ugric winter school in Vienna was discovering a long-eared owl with three fluffy chicks right in front of the city hall 🦉🦉🦉
February 24, 2025 at 11:37 AM
My main personal achievement at the Finno-Ugric winter school in Vienna was discovering a long-eared owl with three fluffy chicks right in front of the city hall 🦉🦉🦉
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If you want to learn more about Mansi, you can listen to the episode of "A Language I Love Is..." with Daria: shows.acast.com/64e0e1540b9d...
Mansi and Daria Zhornik | A Language I Love Is...
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February 19, 2025 at 2:34 PM
If you want to learn more about Mansi, you can listen to the episode of "A Language I Love Is..." with Daria: shows.acast.com/64e0e1540b9d...
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Our amazing doctoral researcher Daria Zhornik is teaching a Northern Mansi course at the Winter School of Finno-Ugric Studies in Vienna #2025WinterSchool
Māńśi lātəη! Mēn χańiśtan nē Darjan χańiśtawew. #2025WinterSchool
February 19, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Our amazing doctoral researcher Daria Zhornik is teaching a Northern Mansi course at the Winter School of Finno-Ugric Studies in Vienna #2025WinterSchool
If you
1) have received your PhD in the last five years,
2) have a project in mind that you can imagine doing with me,
3) would like to spend 1–3 months in Munich in 2026,
please let me know, as the Center for Advanced Studies at LMU might have an opportunity for you:
www.cas.lmu.de/en/programs/...
1) have received your PhD in the last five years,
2) have a project in mind that you can imagine doing with me,
3) would like to spend 1–3 months in Munich in 2026,
please let me know, as the Center for Advanced Studies at LMU might have an opportunity for you:
www.cas.lmu.de/en/programs/...
Call for Applications: Short-term Visiting Fellowships in 2026
The Center for Advanced Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) is a forum for intensive interdisciplinary academic exchange.
www.cas.lmu.de
February 6, 2025 at 12:20 PM
If you
1) have received your PhD in the last five years,
2) have a project in mind that you can imagine doing with me,
3) would like to spend 1–3 months in Munich in 2026,
please let me know, as the Center for Advanced Studies at LMU might have an opportunity for you:
www.cas.lmu.de/en/programs/...
1) have received your PhD in the last five years,
2) have a project in mind that you can imagine doing with me,
3) would like to spend 1–3 months in Munich in 2026,
please let me know, as the Center for Advanced Studies at LMU might have an opportunity for you:
www.cas.lmu.de/en/programs/...
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Our fantastic intern Tuuli Savela is giving a talk on Sámi mythology at the LMU Campus Day right now. If you have missed it, the good news is that in the summer semester we will also have a course on Sámi languages in time and space by our doctoral researcher Ilia Egorov.
February 1, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Our fantastic intern Tuuli Savela is giving a talk on Sámi mythology at the LMU Campus Day right now. If you have missed it, the good news is that in the summer semester we will also have a course on Sámi languages in time and space by our doctoral researcher Ilia Egorov.
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Universities all over Europe are cutting language programs and closing the doors to the world. We want to get a more complete picture: where, when, why?
If you know of any such cases, please tell us (and share the link with your language and linguistics contacts)!
elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/13...
If you know of any such cases, please tell us (and share the link with your language and linguistics contacts)!
elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/13...
December 13, 2024 at 2:35 PM
Universities all over Europe are cutting language programs and closing the doors to the world. We want to get a more complete picture: where, when, why?
If you know of any such cases, please tell us (and share the link with your language and linguistics contacts)!
elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/13...
If you know of any such cases, please tell us (and share the link with your language and linguistics contacts)!
elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/13...
The University of Helsinki is looking for a lecturer in Finno-Ugric linguistics: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
University lecturer in Finno-Ugric linguistics
University lecturer in Finno-Ugric linguistics
jobs.helsinki.fi
January 29, 2025 at 1:20 PM
The University of Helsinki is looking for a lecturer in Finno-Ugric linguistics: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
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In today's #map_of_the_month rubric, we have a map of places in Karelia and southern Finland whose names feature the Proto-Saami root meaning 'stone'. In this and many other cases, toponyms found in a region can tell a lot about its earlier inhabitants.
January 28, 2025 at 3:32 PM
In today's #map_of_the_month rubric, we have a map of places in Karelia and southern Finland whose names feature the Proto-Saami root meaning 'stone'. In this and many other cases, toponyms found in a region can tell a lot about its earlier inhabitants.